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Engagement in Practice: Engineering Minority Student Engagement Project (EM-STEP)
Mohsin Mohammed Jamali,
Sepehr Arbabi,
Ramiro Bravo,
Hossein Hosseini,
Harishchandra Aryal
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
148-152
Received:
23 August 2021
Accepted:
3 September 2021
Published:
10 November 2021
Abstract: The US is in greater need of STEM graduates to keep its competitive edge. Various US government agencies have raised concerns about shortage of STEM graduates for 35 years. It is equally important to keep US in technologically superior position. One way to grow the STEM workforce is to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. It has been reported that incoming students are weak in Mathematics and thereby having great difficulty in engineering courses. As a result, they are dropping out of engineering programs resulting in low retention and graduation rates. It is desired to reinforce mathematical concepts. It is desired to engage, mentor and tutor them to keep them from dropping. There are three objectives in this project. One is to increase recruitment; the second goal is to improvement via engagement and providing help. The third goal of increasing graduation rates will be automatically achieved by enhancing retention rates. To meet this objective, Engineering Minority student Engagement Project (EM-STEP) is using an innovative five prong approach of offering Saturday Academy, peer lead group, professional lecture series, freshman seminar and summer research projects. Four high D, withdrawals, incomplete and F grade rates courses have been identified and they are Fundamentals of Electric Circuit Analysis, Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Introduction to Thermodynamics. Students in these courses are from four engineering disciplines of Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering. These courses are being taught in the Saturday Academy and twenty students are working as peer group leaders. We are also offering motivating lectures in the professional lecture series. Summer research project for 8-week duration is also offered.
Abstract: The US is in greater need of STEM graduates to keep its competitive edge. Various US government agencies have raised concerns about shortage of STEM graduates for 35 years. It is equally important to keep US in technologically superior position. One way to grow the STEM workforce is to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. It has be...
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Development Suggestion and Hotspots Analysis of Medical Undergraduate Scientific Research Training at Home and Abroad Based on CiteSpace Software
Yi Xiong,
Li Yang,
Linlin Yang
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
153-166
Received:
30 September 2021
Accepted:
1 November 2021
Published:
17 November 2021
Abstract: Objective: To study the current situation and hotspots of medical undergraduate research training at home and abroad, and to provide suggestions for the development of medical undergraduate research training in China. Methods: PubMed and CNKI were used as data sources to retrieve literature related to medical undergraduates scientific research training from January 2000 to July 2021. Based on CiteSpace software, visualized analysis was performed on the literature of age, country, author, institution and keyword. Use Excel to make statistics of CiteSpace running results. Results: The number of domestic and foreign literature was on the rise. The United States published the most English literature in this field, and Beijing and Jiangsu have published the most Chinese literature in this filed. The distribution of core authors at home and abroad is discrete, and some core authors have cooperated with each other. Domestic research institutions are mainly medical colleges and universities, while foreign research institutions are mainly medical institutions. There are 5 cluster label words in English literature and 9 cluster label words in Chinese literature. There are 11 burst terms in foreign countries and 20 burst terms in Chinese. The historical evolution process of foreign research can be divided into theoretical education and practical education, while the historical evolution process of domestic research can be divided into exploration, development, continuous research and deepening research. Conclusion: There are great differences between domestic and foreign research hotspots. Domestic research focuses on research ability and quality, while foreign research focuses on the combination of theory and practice. There are certain problems in teaching, practice, system, influence and other aspects. It is suggested that the teaching methods should be diversified based on practice, the scientific training system should be improved, and the cooperation between domestic and foreign institutions and authors should be strengthened to further deepen the research in this field and lay a good foundation for the future scientific research and training system.
Abstract: Objective: To study the current situation and hotspots of medical undergraduate research training at home and abroad, and to provide suggestions for the development of medical undergraduate research training in China. Methods: PubMed and CNKI were used as data sources to retrieve literature related to medical undergraduates scientific research trai...
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Exploration on the Cultivation Model of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Internet of Things Engineering Profession
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
167-171
Received:
25 October 2021
Accepted:
15 November 2021
Published:
23 November 2021
Abstract: Innovation is the soul of social progress, the entrepreneurship is an important way to promote social economic development and improve people's livelihood. Contemporary college students are rich in imagination and creativity, who are the main force of innovation and entrepreneurship. Strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship education is an important measure to promote the comprehensive reform of higher education and improve the quality of talent training. Chinese colleges or universities attach great importance to "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education" and run it through the whole process of talent training. Taking Internet of things engineering as an example, this paper actively explores the talent training mode under the background of innovation and entrepreneurship education. Professional teachers’ pay attention to the development of the second classroom, take discipline competition as the carrier, and actively carry out the effective integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and professional education, which can continuously improve the quality of higher education, promote the all-round development of students, cultivate students' innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and ideas, improve students' innovative and entrepreneurial ability and practical ability, and improve students' professional comprehensive quality and core competitiveness.
Abstract: Innovation is the soul of social progress, the entrepreneurship is an important way to promote social economic development and improve people's livelihood. Contemporary college students are rich in imagination and creativity, who are the main force of innovation and entrepreneurship. Strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship education is an imp...
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Interest Conflict Study on Modern Apprenticeship Pilot Work in China: Python-based Analysis from Key and Supporting Level
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
172-177
Received:
7 October 2021
Accepted:
29 October 2021
Published:
27 November 2021
Abstract: The modern apprenticeship pilot work in China is a complex system, for it involves multiple stakeholders not only on numbers, but also in categories, with complicated relationship between them. The stakeholders have different interest appeals, resulting in different interest conflicts between them. By dividing the stakeholders into 3 categories of core, key and supporting levels, and ignoring the internal conflicts for the stakeholders in the same category, this paper is trying to find some guiding principles in dealing with the interest conflicts in the key and supporting levels for the stakeholders. Based on python analysis, the paper finds out that the stakeholders need to follow the guiding principle of “conforming to the government”, that is, the industry organizations shall conform to the government departments, so as to solve the conflicts of interest between the 2 at key levels; and also they should follow the guiding principle of “adapting to parents”, namely, the media and foreign researchers shall adapt to the parents, so as to solve the conflicts of the attitude and social benefits between the 3 at the supporting level. Only in this way may all the stakeholders at the key and supporting level take joint efforts in promoting modern apprentices’ training and cultivation.
Abstract: The modern apprenticeship pilot work in China is a complex system, for it involves multiple stakeholders not only on numbers, but also in categories, with complicated relationship between them. The stakeholders have different interest appeals, resulting in different interest conflicts between them. By dividing the stakeholders into 3 categories of ...
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The Internal Logic and Generation Path of the Synergy Between Labor Education and Professional Education in Institutions of Higher Learning
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
178-184
Received:
8 November 2021
Accepted:
27 November 2021
Published:
2 December 2021
Abstract: The quality of labor education is an important guarantee for institutions of higher learning to accomplish the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating talents. The new objectives of labor education and the new standards of law major education in institutions of higher learning in the new era were analyzed to find their commonality and integrating points, in which the existing problems of law major labor education were further analyzed, including inconsistency between the cognition of labor concept, the construction of curriculum system, the evaluation of labor education and the goal of talent training. We explore and put forward the generation path of synergy between law major labor education and professional education, including combining online self-learning with offline interactive counseling, combining in-class theoretical lecturing with extracurricular practical experience, combining theoretical knowledge with practical needs, combining process management with result evaluation, and combining campus culture edification with innovation and entrepreneurship education, which provide a reference for the research on the collaborative education mechanism of professional education and labor education in the same or similar disciplines.
Abstract: The quality of labor education is an important guarantee for institutions of higher learning to accomplish the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating talents. The new objectives of labor education and the new standards of law major education in institutions of higher learning in the new era were analyzed to find their commonality and...
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The Didactic Contract in Times of Accreditation
Walter Arnaldo Cordoba,
Maria Fernanda Vazquez,
Ricardo German Rincon
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
185-190
Received:
16 June 2021
Accepted:
12 July 2021
Published:
7 December 2021
Abstract: Faced with the institutional challenge posed by the instance of accreditation of a career in the Argentine university system, the pedagogical proposals formulated by the teaching teams take on special relevance. These explain how each teaching team intends to develop the curriculum in its methodological, content and evaluation aspects. For their part, higher-level educational institutions express, deploy, their Study Plans through the Chair Projects developed by the teaching teams. In this sense, they must develop actions aimed at training the members of their teaching teams in educational research, planning and evaluation. The Projects must also express all the missions of the university (teaching, research and extension) and constitute the basic agreement on which the academic activity revolves. The projects become a powerful tool to plan and control the adequacy of academic processes to the quality standards established by the accrediting agencies. For the students, the didactic proposals are constituted in the didactic contracts of each chair, to which they must adjust their tasks throughout the academic periods involved.
Abstract: Faced with the institutional challenge posed by the instance of accreditation of a career in the Argentine university system, the pedagogical proposals formulated by the teaching teams take on special relevance. These explain how each teaching team intends to develop the curriculum in its methodological, content and evaluation aspects. For their pa...
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Discussion on the Work of Career Guidance in Independent Colleges
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
191-194
Received:
18 November 2021
Accepted:
29 November 2021
Published:
7 December 2021
Abstract: With the transformation and development of independent colleges in the new era, student vocational guidance is becoming more and more important. Career guidance in independent colleges is of great significance in that it is conducive to the stability of social development, helpful in improving the quality of independent colleges, and helpful in enhancing students’ comprehensive quality. Starting from the characteristics of independent colleges, combined with the role of vocational guidance in the development of independent colleges, this paper points out related problems such as weak consciousness of vocational guidance and unsound system, lack of professional guidance & professional quality of vocational instructors to be improved, single method of vocational guidance, most of them staying in the theoretical level & lack of effectiveness, career guidance lacking continuity and unable to function fully, deviation of college students’ understanding of vocational guidance, and puts forward corresponding solutions such as optimizing the team of vocational instructors and improving their professional quality, combining theory with practice to improve its effectiveness, using new media in carrying out comprehensive vocational guidance, etc. By effectively carrying out vocational guidance work, we can not only promote the development of independent colleges, but also help students fully explore their own potential, so that students can quickly adapt to the change of roles after entering the society, improve their employment competitiveness, and realize the all-round development of students and colleges.
Abstract: With the transformation and development of independent colleges in the new era, student vocational guidance is becoming more and more important. Career guidance in independent colleges is of great significance in that it is conducive to the stability of social development, helpful in improving the quality of independent colleges, and helpful in enh...
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Analysis of Learning Habits of China’s Undergraduates from the Perspective of Compulsory Courses
Sai Ma,
Xing Zeng,
Zigen Li,
Yanrong Li
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
195-206
Received:
9 November 2021
Accepted:
6 December 2021
Published:
24 December 2021
Abstract: In the context of economic globalization, higher education pays more and more attention to the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents. Changing the inappropriate part of traditional teaching methods has become a challenge that China’s higher education must handle to maintain its competitiveness in the new era. Covid-19 makes the combination of online and offline teaching become the norm, which will also raise higher requirements for undergraduates’ learning self-discipline. This paper analyses the learning habits of undergraduates in China’s higher education institutions. Compulsory courses account for a large proportion of the curriculum, and they are the learning tasks that must be completed during undergraduate stage, and their credits directly corresponding to the classroom learning time, which can indicate some learning situations of undergraduate. The statistical data were collected from a comprehensive university, and its training disciplines were divided into five cases. The average weekly fixed class workload of undergraduates was obtained through the credits of compulsory courses in each case for many grades. The reasons for the formation of undergraduates learning status and the influence of learning quality were interpreted by the combination of the survey data with the corresponding teachers’ comments. The weakness of active learning consciousness of China’s undergraduates is mainly related to the learning habits formed under long-term exam-oriented education. In addition, teachers’ sense of responsibility plays a core role in the learning outcomes of undergraduates. At present, the concern of China’s higher education is gradually shifting from teaching to learning, focusing on the cultivation of undergraduates’ interest in their majors and independent learning ability after class.
Abstract: In the context of economic globalization, higher education pays more and more attention to the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents. Changing the inappropriate part of traditional teaching methods has become a challenge that China’s higher education must handle to maintain its competitiveness in the new era. Covid-19 makes the combination of on...
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Exploration on the Academic Achievements of Chinese Government-sponsored Normal University Students from the Perspective of Two Major Classrooms
Zhong Kaiqi,
Chao Qiuhong
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
207-213
Received:
8 December 2021
Accepted:
17 December 2021
Published:
24 December 2021
Abstract: In order to train a large number of outstanding teachers, Chinese government has implemented the policy of public-funded normal education. Government-sponsored normal university students can enjoy a total tuition waiver, living allowance and employment security. Under the social background of China's difficult employment for university students, employment security has set government-sponsored normal university students at ease, as they no longer need to compete in universities for future job opportunities. From the perspective of the first-second classroom linkage, this research, with normal university undergraduates majoring in special education in Guangdong Province, China, as the investigation sample, explores the development of academic achievements under same learning environment between government-sponsored and non-government-sponsored students, so as to dissect whether there is a correlation between the academic achievement of government-sponsored students and employment security? It is found that the government-sponsored students had globally higher academic achievements in the first classroom than non-government-sponsored students, but had lower academic achievements in the second classroom, showing the conflicts in the development of the two classrooms. According to the facts, it is shown that government-sponsored students have stronger professional identity that non-government-sponsored students, and are actively engaged in the learning of the first classroom. However, the former have weaker endogenous power than the later. Employment security affects the government-sponsored students' academic achievements in the second classroom.
Abstract: In order to train a large number of outstanding teachers, Chinese government has implemented the policy of public-funded normal education. Government-sponsored normal university students can enjoy a total tuition waiver, living allowance and employment security. Under the social background of China's difficult employment for university students, em...
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The Interdisciplinary Features of Business English in International Trade Practice Course
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2021
Pages:
214-222
Received:
30 November 2021
Accepted:
24 December 2021
Published:
31 December 2021
Abstract: Since China joined the World Trade Organization, its massive economic development has become more integrated with the global economy, especially by playing an active role in world trade activities. While during trading with foreign businessmen one of the most important obstacles is business communication. Along with the business globalization and The Belt and Road Initiative, Business English has become the bridge for paving the way to the business communication between international enterprises. Therefore, the versatile Business English majors are the demanding talents in the global market. With the globalization of science and technology, more and more universities have made educating and nurturing the compound and integrated talents as their teaching objectives. While due to the interdisciplinary nature of Business English, the teaching content covered by Business English involves many other fields of knowledge, which to some extent increases the difficulties of learning Business English. In order to better understand the complexity of the interdisciplinary features of Business English, this paper will analyze the interdisciplinary nature of Business English from the perspective of International Trade Practice Course, and analyze the various academic disciplines covered by International Trade Practice Course such as linguistics, economics, International Commercial Law, Business Correspondence, statistics and so on through case studies, then highlight and summarize the interdisciplinary nature of Business English, and put forward corresponding suggestions for the teaching and learning of Business English in the light of teachers and learners.
Abstract: Since China joined the World Trade Organization, its massive economic development has become more integrated with the global economy, especially by playing an active role in world trade activities. While during trading with foreign businessmen one of the most important obstacles is business communication. Along with the business globalization and T...
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